2012 presidential election is over: Now what?

7:52 PM,
Nov. 6, 2012

Written by

Sid Salter

Now that the Nov. 6 balloting is complete - although the squabbling over the balloting is nowhere near complete - where does the country go from here?

Regardless the outcome of the election, the United States faces a laundry list of serious problems. First and foremost, as exposed by the election, this is a sharply divided nation - one that is divided by disparate beliefs and values as it relates to the nature of government, by economic status and by perceptions of equality filtered through the prisms of race, gender, religion and morality.